Cultural Encounters in Arab American Relations with Sopanit Angushinga, Nora Lessersohn, Maha El Said, and Mounira Soliman (Fares Center International Conference 2024)
The Fares Center International Conference took place on April 18 and 19, 2024 at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
Cultural Encounters as Sites for Defining New Directions in Arab-American Relations
Friday April 19, 10:30-11:45 AM
Chaired by Professor Malik Mufti, Tufts University
Sopanit “Dede” Angsusingha is a Ph.D. Candidate specializing in the modern Middle East and North Africa in the Department of History at Georgetown University. Her research interests include women and gender in the Arab World as well as colonialism and imperialism in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.
Nora Lessersohn is a historian of U.S., Ottoman and Armenian history with a focus on the lives of Armenian-Americans. She earned her doctorate in history from University College London in 2023, supported by a Calouste Gulbenkian Armenian Studies Scholarship. Dr. Lessersohn has published articles on the memoir of her great-grandfather, Hovhannes Cherishian, and is now preparing a manuscript on the life and work of Christopher Oscanyan, an early Middle Eastern-American.
Maha El Said is the Chair of the English Department, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University. She has more than 22 years of experience teaching at Egyptian Universities with a special interest in American Studies. She has publications on Arab American writings, creative writing, popular culture, gender and the impact of new technologies on literature.
Mounira Soliman is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cairo University. Co-editor of “Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook” (Routledge, 2013), and the co-translator into Arabic of Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Democracy (Saqi Books, 2011). Fulbright Visiting Senior Specialist at Yale University in 2008. Serves on the International Advisory Board of the Center for American Studies and Research at American University in Beirut.
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